We offer a complete line of leading valve products plus the region’s most experienced team of valve service professionals.Our technical expertise, industry experience, and rapid response ensure that your project is a success – each and every time.

With 11 locations serving 17 western states, Bay Valve Service provides effective valve and actuator repair and service that increases plant safety, improves reliability and optimizes your total cost of ownership (TCO).

Bay Valve Service LLC. recently completed Phase I and began Phase II of a project with a local municipal water district in Washington that showcases the company’s expanded engineered flow solutions capabilities in the hydro market.

The company began work to repair two out of six valves and proposed a system redesign and installation of a special plunger-style, energy dissipation valve that would improve and extend the life of the municipal water system.

Bay Valve Service workers remove a turbine trip valve from the job site.

“The valves being used by this system were very old and not being used in the way they were designed,” said John Barta, Bay Valve Service Technical Account Lead. “We repaired the valves that had worn out and proposed a new valve design that would extend the life of the equipment 50 years.”

Barta added: “This new valve, which measures 48 inches in diameter and weighs 14,000 lbs., will serve three important functions in the water system. First, it will act as a shut-off valve; second, it will be a modulating, or control valve; and third, and most importantly, it will be an energy dissipation valve. This will enable the efficient discharge of water at a rate of as much as 550 cubic feet per second.”

The new valve proposal will provide a final long-term solution with the right valve.

Bay Valve Service is a leading service and equipment provider in many industrial segments and has expanded its large project work in the hydro market over the past two years, according to Bay Valve Service President Jason Schrage.

“We’ve been involved in hydro projects for a number of years, but we are working with several new manufacturers that will enable Bay Valve Service to participate more actively in larger hydro opportunities,” Schrage said.

The drop in oil and gas prices has affected a wide range of companies, but we’re weathering the volatility by focusing on expanded value propositions for services in non-oil and gas industries.

With operations in 17 Western U.S. states,we’ve been able to continue growing our business through pump projects and repairs, as well as other flow solutions projects, in the pulp & paper, power generation, marine, aerospace, mining, water/waste water, food processing industries and more.

“Most companies know Bay Valve Service for its expertise in valve and actuator repair, maintenance and replacement within the oil and gas and power generation industries, but alongside that we have significant expertise to develop solutions for all flow path problems in a wide variety of markets,” our company President Jason Schrage said.

Our relationship with several sister companies also provides Bay Valve Service access to major motor manufacturers with motors up to 8,000 HP. “If it’s in the flow path, we can work on it, from controlling pressure in piping, vessels, and tanks, controlling flow, straining flow, and ensuring piping system integrity through non-destructive testing,” Schrage said.

“Not only can Bay Valve Service improve the safety and reliability of your flow systems,” he said, “we effectively reduce your total cost of ownership with business strategies that keep your systems operating at peak efficiency.”

“With more than 35 years’ experience in managing flow solutions projects, including pumps, valves, and actuators, Bay Valve Service offers the innovation, expertise and business flexibility to provide the best flow solutions for our customers,” Schrage said.

When Benny Bencheikh, one of our senior project field managers, saw an opportunity to solve an operational problem for a customer, he took it – and ended up pioneering a new approach to repair and upgrade critical valves used in power generation plants.

When these automatic recirculation valves (also known as ARC valves) were first introduced, they were seen as a great solution for maintaining the minimum flow levels required to keep critical pumps at a safe operating point on their performance curve.

The solution, however, did not work as plants aged and were faced with different operational demands.

“As the fleet of power generation facilities has aged, our customers were experiencing significant wear and tear and damage to their ARC valves,” Benny explained. The wear and tear has resulted from two inherent characteristics of ARC valves:

The valves are custom designed to meet the specific operating environment at each installation.

The bypass system in the valve contains a number of small internal parts that regulate the flow and keep the pump on the operational curve.

“The valves were designed and installed for one specific set of operational parameters and were not able to handle differences in operating conditions that emerge as a power plant ages or changes operational requirements,” Bay Valve Customer Service Manager Kent Rummelhart said.

“When the valves face changing pressures and operating environments, the smaller bypass components experience damage to the point of failure and end up in the piping system, creating additional operational problems for the facility”, Benny said.

The solution’s success at a major client of Bay Valve Service is typical of this repair and how we work with the customer to solve complex problems. The maintenance manager at a 550MW plant experiencing ARC valve problems commented that “equipment reliability and a proactive approach are an absolute necessity to the continuous and safe operation of any facility when developing repair plans.”

This specific plant’s ARC valves were known for developing minor leaks, requiring annual repairs and adding to maintenance costs. We were instrumental in working hand in hand with their facility to implement an engineered solution that addressed these repeated failures.

“Bay Valve Service performed the valve repair modification in 2010, which has been proven to be successful and robust, as the valves continued to develop zero leaks throughout the plants operation,” the maintenance manager said.

“After more than eight years, 25 retrofits, and excellent feedback from our customers, this solution is proven to improve reliability and reduce operational costs,” Benny said.

Bay Valve Service is ready to apply this patent-pending solution across the U.S. in all power generation facilities. To receive an initial evaluation, contact us at (707) 748-7166.